Comments on: France Bans the Term “E-Mail”

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 02:29:12 +0000

Linguistic silliness to my mind – Yanks took “freedom fries”, now France is trying to protect the French language by trying to drop “e-mail” for the French fusion “courriel”:

By: David

David — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:55:38 +0000

No e in front of courriel now?

By: Al Gold

Al Gold — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:53:06 +0000

I thought so also.

By: Neil

Neil — Sun, 12 Oct 2003 21:57:08 +0000

I thought courriel was the french word for e-mail all along. That’s what all the francophones I know call it.

By: Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan — Fri, 03 Oct 2003 16:13:25 +0000

Hey,makes sense to me! (What is an e-mail?)